It was a local story last week, now USA Today has picked up the tale of the blogger who punched a hole in the stupid right-wing blatherings of San Francisco right-wing rant station KSFO.
KSFO has been a public embarrassment since it moved to the right with its ultra-conservative garbage. At one time that group included clown brain Michael Savage. It doesn't now.
Still, though, advertisers are abandoning KSFO after the blogger, Spocko, unearthed some of the stupid comments KSFO on-air "talent" has been making. Here are two cited by USA Today in their article:
•In November, morning co-host Melanie Morgan said of then-incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat: "We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big, wide, laughing eyes."
•Evening host Brian Sussman in December referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who has a Kenyan father and a white American mother, as a "halfrican." In October 2005, Sussman asked a caller to prove he wasn't a Muslim by saying "Allah is a whore."
Clearly, this kind of stupidity doesn't need to be on the airwaves -- and subsidized by ABC, which owns KSFO. ABC's lawyers, however, didn't take this bad publicity lying down and sued Spocko. Spocko had to move to another web hosting service after his original one shut down his website as soon as ABC rattled its sword.
Good that he's back up. Good that this stuff is coming to light. Stupid of ABC to be associated with this garbage. Free speech doesn't mean rampant stupidity, ABC!
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